History Today

Proud patriots perhaps, but were the irregular forces in Spain's war against Napoleon a help or a hindrance? Charles Esdaile investigates.

Tim Tatton-Brown reviews the picture of one of Anglo-Saxon England's best-known saints built up at a major exhibition in Canterbury for the millennium of his death.

Georgy Smirnov investigates the reforming policies in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Tony Aldous comments on a scheduled ancient monument on the Settle-Carlisle Line.

The chance discovery of a 14th-century parchment charting the financial habits of Richard II

Was eighteenth-century England dynamic, entrepreneurial and secular, or hierarchic, conservative and confessional? Jeremy Black investigates recent 'revisionist' reassessments of the period.

Roy Porter describes an institution of the mid-18th century designed to care for abandoned infants.

John Williams, Eric Dunning and Patrick Murphy discuss the long history of British football hooliganism.

Taylor Downing, producer of a dramatised documentary about the Luddite disturbances in Regency England, talks about the making of the current-affairs-style programme, and the 'then and now' parallels about resistance of skilled workers to the introduction of new technology.